Title
Tadalafil, a Phosphodiesterase Inhibitor Protects Stem Cells over Longer Period Against Hypoxia/Reoxygenation Injury Through STAT3/PKG-I Signaling
Abbreviated Journal Title
Stem Cells Dev.
Keywords
NITRIC-OXIDE SYNTHASE; JAK-STAT PATHWAY; CONSCIOUS RABBITS; LATE-PHASE; INDUCED CARDIOPROTECTION; IN-VIVO; ACTIVATION; PHOSPHORYLATION; SURVIVAL; KINASES; Cell & Tissue Engineering; Hematology; Medicine, Research &; Experimental; Transplantation
Abstract
Pharmacological preconditioning (PC) with tadalafil, a PDE5A inhibitor, enhances protein kinase G-1 (PKG-I) activity, resulting in stem cell survival. Protection by PC had two different phases, early (2 h) and late (24 h). However, the mechanism of protection during these phases remained grossly unknown. Mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) from adult male Fischer-344 rats were cultured and pretreated with tadalafil (100 mu M) for an hour and subjected to 2 h of hypoxia (1% O-2), followed by reoxygenation (HR: in vitro model mimicking ischemia/reperfusion). We observed (i) increased MSC survival with reduced cell cytotoxicity as revealed by low lactate dehydrogenase release and trypan blue staining, respectively, in tadalafil-treated cells upon HR; (ii) decrease in TUNEL positivity as well as caspase activity; (iii) an increase in pAkt/Akt, iNOS, eNOS, and pGSK3 beta/GSK3 beta during the early protection phase of PC, and this protection seemed to be a spontaneous adaptive response of MSCs against HR and was independent of tadalafil, whereas an increase in Bcl2/Bax was tadalafil dependent; and (iv) during the late phase, we observed phosphorylation of STAT3 at serine727, leading to its entry inside the nucleus and binding onto the promoter of PKG-I by three-fold (P < 0.05). In conclusion, an increase in Bcl2/Bax during the early phase and transcriptional upregulation of PKG-I by STAT3 during the late phase were responsible for stem cell protection by tadalafil against ischemic injury.
Journal Title
Stem Cells and Development
Volume
24
Issue/Number
11
Publication Date
1-1-2015
Document Type
Article
Language
English
First Page
1332
Last Page
1341
WOS Identifier
ISSN
1547-3287
Recommended Citation
"Tadalafil, a Phosphodiesterase Inhibitor Protects Stem Cells over Longer Period Against Hypoxia/Reoxygenation Injury Through STAT3/PKG-I Signaling" (2015). Faculty Bibliography 2010s. 6642.
https://stars.library.ucf.edu/facultybib2010/6642
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